that's what the election is. mark my words, if president obama wins this election, and i think he will, i really do believe he'll win, there will be a lame duck session of congress, they will avoid the fiscal cliff, they will either pass a multi-year budget then or agree to conditions to keep the government going while they work on the budget in the next couple of months after the election, and you will see a much higher level of cooperation, because their number one goal, the republicans, as senator mcconnell said, to defeat the president. well, that can't be their goal anymore because he can't run for anything anymore. that's a done deal. so then i believe their number one goal will be either to make some progress or at least to hold on to their majority which they can't do without making some progress. then i think you will see both sides begin to compromise, work together and you will see this logjam break. >> when we come back, the question people have been asking ever since bill clinton's big speech at the